Rules of Engagement – The Walking DUI

How you can get arrested for suspected DUI when you aren’t even walking near your car.

The walking DUI is a nasty trap that you could find yourself in. Be prepared for some serious bold-faced lies and attempts to make you help them manufacture false evidence against you. You would think it should be an issue of public intoxication, but a walking DUI requires less burden of proof. It can also be a police method of acting out in retaliation or racism.

Here’s How It Works

The way they set this trap is simple. A police officer or denouncing witness sees you park and exit your car. Then the police approach you and claim they smell “intoxicants.” Then we’re off to the races! All they need to do is connect you to your car and they can still get you for a past tense drunk or impaired driving crime.

You can nip it in the bud by saying in reply “Oh, really? Can you tell me the characteristics of the smell?” This is a way to cut through the vague linguistics. Their fill-in-the-blank later use of catch-all terms and phrases. They think they can speak guilt into existence by the invocation (more like mummery) of magic words they are taught in cop school. You must counteract this by forcing them to be more specific. Thus you can create ways to catch them in a lie and contradict themselves.

Lies Can Be Like Cement

Continuing this line of forced conversation, expect the cop to play dumb. Or even be too dumb to know words like “characteristics.” Help them along by offering up mutually exclusive words that could possibly be what he means. For example. “Characteristics are specific details of a thing. I want to understand just what you are accusing me of. So how would you describe this “intoxicant” smell? Is it like liquor, vodka, stale beer, wine? With pot you can ask if it smells like smoke, raw bud, concentrate, cigarettes?” Those last two are you setting up potential lie traps. Concentrates are odorless and cigarettes smell differently and would be suspicious not to include in describing a cigarette smoker’s car or person.

Avoid the He Said, She Said Situation

Don’t ever rely on dash or body cam video, you must make your own defensive evidence. Proof that you have immediate access to and control over. Besides official recordings can fail due to many innocent factors like wind and passing truck noise, when you need every word.

Challenge every accusation audibly. Lock them down to their false answers to keep them from locking you up for a blood draw on a false arrest for pot DUI/DWI. Tell them, if they ask, that you “do not do field sobriety tests because you know they are not a test of impairment.” If they ask why you can say, “They are just stress positions designed to manufacture false evidence and you can not be compelled to make false evidence against yourself.” And above all, have a video recording device. I had a cop declare my eyes were red and watery. I made him fail with this picture I selfied right after he made his reckless remark.

Were You Accused?

Were you arrested so you could be taken for a blood test? If you were arrested and released or even convicted of a walking DUI you may still be able to fight it or prevent cops from continuing the practice. Leave us a note about it here.

I can’t assure you the courts will grant you any satisfaction, but guarantee police will continue in their misconduct against our community if nobody fights back in court.